<p>Upgrade <code>Alpine:3.17</code> <code>expat</code> to version 2.4.9-r0 or higher.</p>

Use After Free Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.9-r0

Threat Intelligence

0.56% (79^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE317-EXPAT-3139529
published 21 Sep 2022
disclosed 14 Sep 2022

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Introduced: 14 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-40674 Open this link in a new tab CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.17 expat to version 2.4.9-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream expat package and not the expat package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.17 relevant fixed versions and status.

libexpat before 2.4.9 has a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Network
Attack Complexity (AC)

High
Privileges Required (PR)

None
User Interaction (UI)

None

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

High
Integrity (I)

High
Availability (A)

High

Use After Free Affecting expat package, versions <2.4.9-r0

Severity

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